While Mulder is being nursed back to health by helpful Navajos, the Cigarette-Smoking Man searches frantically for the all-important Defense Department tape. Scully meanwhile, gets a surprise visitor - the Well-Manicured Man - who warns her to trust no one. Soon after, Scully's sister Melissa is shot by Alex Krycek, who thought he was gunning down Scully herself.
Mulder and Scully track down a former Nazi scientist who came to the U.S. after World War II under the auspices of a secret operation called "Paper Clip." He sends them off to an abandoned mine in West Virginia where they find thousands of files including one on Samantha Mulder. Meanwhile, the DAT tape is stolen from Skinner, but he enlists the help of Navajo Albert Hosteen, who he claims has memorized everything on it and passed the knowledge along to other Navajos.
Video game junkie Darin Peter Oswald (Giovanni Ribisi) can do more than rack up all-time highs on Virtua Fighter II: He can call down lightning whenever he wishes, using his power to toast anyone who annoys him.
When a serial killer starts bumping off fortune tellers, Mulder and Scully investigate, finding their hunt for the murderer aided by an unusual ally - Clyde Bruckman, an insurance salesman who can see the future (Peter Boyle).
Even execution can't end the killing days of Napoleon "Neech" Manley (Badja Djola). Before going to the electric chair he vows revenge on the inmates and guards who made his prison days a living hell. Later, the men on his list of enemies begin dying gruesome deaths.
Talk about the blind date from Hell. Virgil Incanto (Timothy Carhart) rarely gets a second date - because at the end of the first one, he sucks all the fat from his date's body killing her in the process. Incanto trolls the Internet under the online name "2Shy" until Mulder and Scully track him down and put an end to his deadly diet.
Mulder and Scully investigate a rash of mysterious killings linked to a military hospital. After several bodies have piled up, the agents discover that the killer is a quadruple amputee who uses astral projection to carry out his crimes.
Lucy Householder (Tracy Ellis) - Kidnapped and held captive for years as a child - shares a psychic link with her tormentor's latest victim. Mulder and Scully use that link to rescue the little girl, but can't save Lucy from her tragic destiny.
Mulder gets a tape of what looks like an alien autopsy, but when he tracks down the source or the video, he finds his informant dead. That sets him on a trail eventually leading to a mysterious train that seems linked to the government's efforts to create human/alien hybrids. Meanwhile Scully encounters members of the Mutual UFO Network who tell her she, like them, was abducted by aliens.
Mulder finds a strange being inside the train, but Scully believes it's not an alien, simply a human victim of radiation-mutation experiments. Nevertheless, the Syndicate doesn't want Mulder poking around: One of its operatives tries to kill him. But X arrives in time to save the agent just before the train car- and the evidence on board - is destroyed in an explosion.
A murderer is killing off "stigmatics" - people who bleed from the hands and feet, mirroring the wounds inflicted upon Christ during crucifixion. Scully and Mulder try to protect one of the potential victims, triggering in Scully troubling thoughts about her Catholic faith.
Mulder and Scully chase a bunch of killer cockroaches. But are they really roaches? Are they sophisticated robots...or maybe even miniaturized probes from an alien intelligence?
A very unharmonic convergence of astronomical bodies floods the small town of Comity with celestial energy. Two high-school girls are able to channel the energy, using it to kill classmates who annoy them. Though the local townspeople blame Satanic cults for the strange goings-on, Mulder and Scully eventually discover the truth.
In the beginning, the case seems to get sewed up pretty easily: Crazed art student John Mostow (Levani Outchaneichvili), who thinks himself to be possessed by a demon, is the killer responsible for several gruesome slayings. But the murders continue after Mostow is captured. Mulder must enter the mind of the madman to solve the case.
In the first episode of season three's important two-parters, a French salvage ship gets more than it bargained for when it finds a World War II-era U.S. plane on the ocean floor. Inside is the pilot-still alive, and possessed by the black oil. After taking over one of the French sailors, the oil makes its way to Hong Kong, where it takes over Alex Krycek just after Mulder has finally captured the renegade agent.
Mulder takes a possessed Krycek back to the U.S., where the two are ambushed by Syndicate operatives looking for the DAT tape seen earlier in season three. Krycek escapes eventually hooking up with the Cigarette Smoking Man. The two cut a deal: Krycek hands over the tape, CSM tells him where to find a hidden alien craft. When Krycek finds the spaceship, the black oil oozes out of his body, leaving him trapped in an underground military facility.
Killer-for-hire Robert Modell has a unique way of carrying out assassinations; He can talk people into killing themselves. When Mulder and Scully finally track him down, he works his mojo on the agents, forcing them into a deadly game of Russian roulette.
When an ancient urn is taken from a sacred burial ground in Teso dos Bichos, Ecuador, it seems to bring a curse upon the archaeologists who unearthed the site. One by one, the scientists disappear. Eventually Scully and Mulder discover their fate: They've been dragged away and killed by a savage army of killer cats.
When a Chinese man is burned alive in a crematorium oven and another turns up dead with a live frog in his chest, the signs point to angry spirits at work. But after Mulder and Scully dig deeper, they find that the real trigger for these bizarre deaths is a lottery played by Chinese immigrants. Winners take home a bundle of cash. Losers must forfeit their lives.
A pair of teenagers out on a date are abducted. That much is clear. But by whom? Aliens? The military? Lord Kinbote from the center of the Earth? Everybody's got a theory except author Jose Chung, who can't piece together the truth after interviewing Scully - and refuses to believe what he hears from Mulder.
On the heels of his pending divorce, Walter Skinner awakens after a one-night stand to find his lover murdered. When it turns out that woman was a prostitute, it starts to look like Skinner has been set up. Mulder gets involved and uncovers a strange paranormal twist on the case. A mysterious old woman has been haunting Skinner's dreams - a dangerous female sprit known as a succubus.
Something large, nasty and hungry is prowling the waters of Heuvelman's Lake in Georgia. First it munches on a Boy Scout troop leader, then it noshes on a scuba diver. Though local believers insist it's the mythological sea serpent known and "Big Blue," Mulder and Scully discover a more mundane - but just as dangerous - creature on the loose.
Subliminal television signals send several seemingly normal citizens on sudden homicidal rampages. Scully falls under the influence of the signals, having delusions that Mulder is secretly working for the Cigarette-Smoking Man. With the help of the Lone Gunmen, Mulder figures out what's going on, but the real culprits - X, CSM and The Syndicate - close down operation before he can expose it.
A mysterious man seems to work a miracle in the aftermath of a restaurant shooting spree, healing the wounded with the power of touch. Mulder and Scully try to track down the man, Jeremiah Smith (Roy Thinnes) and discover that he is one of several clones being systematically bumped off by the Alien Bounty Hunter. They finally catch up with Smith...just as the Alien Bounty Hunter arrives to kill him.
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